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Unveiling the Unseen: 177 Nations of Tasmania's Photo & Storytelling Project Revealed!

Dec 92 min read

Unveiling the Unseen: 177 Nations of Tasmania's Photo & Storytelling Project Revealed!

177 Nations of Tasmania is proud to announce a new collaboration with photographer and author Andrew Wilson that will use photography...

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Podcast highlights for June : Benin, Tunisia and Israel

Mark Thomson

Jun 273 min read

Podcast highlights for June : Benin, Tunisia and Israel

The recent podcast episodes involved one that was 11 months in the making, and another came together in a matter of days. Two of them...

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Autumn colours along the Hobart Rivulet walk

Mark Thomson

Jun 181 min read

Autumn colours along the Hobart Rivulet walk

As I write this, we are well and truly into winter, but I have been going through the many folders of photos I accumulated through the...

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Celebrating 100 episodes of 177 Nations of Tasmania

Mark Thomson

Mar 192 min read

Celebrating 100 episodes of 177 Nations of Tasmania

Having reached 100 episodes/nationalities on the podcast, I thought it was a milestone worth celebrating and I invited participants to...

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Podcast highlights - The Austrian Alps, Aged Care in Singapore and a childhood in PNG

Mark Thomson

Feb 72 min read

Podcast highlights - The Austrian Alps, Aged Care in Singapore and a childhood in PNG

It's been an interesting first month or so on the podcast in 2024, with three quite contrasting stories from Austria, Singapore and Papua...

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Mark Thomson

Aug 17, 20231 min read

Winter night photography

It has been an incredibly mild winter in Hobart in 2023, though I don't think anything will ever stop people complaining about "how cold...

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Discovering some of the hidden laneways of inner city Hobart

Mark Thomson

May 23, 20232 min read

Discovering some of the hidden laneways of inner city Hobart

On the surface of it, the CBD of Hobart can be a bit of an uninspiring zone, replete with drab, mediocre modern architecture and a few...

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Mark Thomson

Dec 27, 20222 min read

New drone - more drone photography

Almost two months ago now, at the height of spring, I purchased a new drone - the DJI Mini 3 Pro, which has been a considerable upgrade...

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Sometimes you can get the best shots close to home...

Mark Thomson

Jun 19, 20222 min read

Sometimes you can get the best shots close to home...

One of the challenges of drone photography in Tasmania, which I've mentioned before, is the changeability of conditions, which can happen...

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177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 60 - In between Hong Kong and Tasmanian culture

Mark Thomson

Jun 16, 20222 min read

177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 60 - In between Hong Kong and Tasmanian culture

I thought it would be interesting to have Anthony on the podcast because of his rather unusual reason for coming to Tasmania and his...

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177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 53 - Barber from Sierra Leone

Mark Thomson

Apr 1, 20222 min read

177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 53 - Barber from Sierra Leone

If you look at the history of migration across the world, one of the common threads you see is how migrants bring both new skills and a...

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Street photography in the rain - being in the moment and looking for new perspectives

Mark Thomson

Nov 12, 20212 min read

Street photography in the rain - being in the moment and looking for new perspectives

I would say that street photography is probably my favourite type of photography both to look at and to do. For me it's almost a kind of...

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Exposing Hobart's "glamorous" side at night

Mark Thomson

Nov 9, 20211 min read

Exposing Hobart's "glamorous" side at night

For the handful of people who have followed my photography blog or looked a bit at my photos on her, you'll probably have noticed a...

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Finding serenity and the perfect drone flying area

Mark Thomson

Sep 24, 20211 min read

Finding serenity and the perfect drone flying area

I've moaned in other posts about all the impediments to flying a drone in the Hobart area. Not only the unpredictable weather with gusty...

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Widening perspectives of Hobart and surrounds

Mark Thomson

Sep 15, 20211 min read

Widening perspectives of Hobart and surrounds

I was just recently browsing through some of the panorama shots I've put together with my drone camera over the last 6 months and...

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Winter fog and mist in the city - trying to find inspiration in the cold and wet

Mark Thomson

Jul 25, 20212 min read

Winter fog and mist in the city - trying to find inspiration in the cold and wet

Recently we had a week of really pretty cold nights, though for me they were the kind of cold I like - still and clear and though the...

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177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 36 - Journeys from Belgium

Mark Thomson

Jul 16, 20213 min read

177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 36 - Journeys from Belgium

One of the challenges of a project like 177 Nations of Tasmania is that you can't really take a one-size-fits-all approach to the wide...

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Trying to get creative with the drone while fighting the weather

Mark Thomson

Mar 9, 20213 min read

Trying to get creative with the drone while fighting the weather

As I've perhaps mentioned before, drone photography and videography can be very much determined by the weather conditions and light. Of...

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